The irruption of new agro-industrial technologies in Uruguay and their environmental impacts on soil, water supply and biodiversity: A review

International Journal of Environment and Health

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 175-197

  Céspedes Payret, Carlos ^a   Piñeiro, Gustavo ^a   Achkar, Marcel ^a   Gutierrez, Ofelia ^a   Panario, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Agro industrial; Biodiversity; Ecosystem services; Environment and health; Environmental; Eucalyptus afforestation; Forest crops; Glyphosate; Grassland ecosystems; Hydrological cycle; Impacts on soil; Land use change; River Plata Basin; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 65549111367     PISSN: 17434955     EISSN: 17434963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJENVH.2009.024877     Document Type: Review

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